Parts: A Study in Ontology¶
Simons, P. (1987). Parts: A Study in Ontology. Clarendon Press.
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Primes¶
- Located-In Relation
- Parthood is transitive (a part of a part is a part of the whole) and tends toward permanence and constitution; located-in is none of these.
This sourceStandard reference on mereology; establishes the transitivity and constitutive character of parthood as distinct from spatial inclusion.
- Parthood is transitive (a part of a part is a part of the whole) and tends toward permanence and constitution; located-in is none of these.
Domain-specific¶
- Fallacy of Composition
- The inference is valid only if a separate preservation principle establishes that \(P\) is closed under \(C\)
This sourceA source would have to state that whether a predicate transfers from parts to the whole they compose is a substantive property of that predicate rather than something the part-whole relation supplies. Goodman, The Structure of Appearance (1951), which defines 'dissective' and its converse, is the tighter home; Simons's Parts could not be checked past its table of contents and chapter-abstract stubs.
- The inference is valid only if a separate preservation principle establishes that \(P\) is closed under \(C\)
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